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The Indiana State University Speaker Series brings national and internationally recognized experts to the Wabash Valley. For more on the series visit http://www.indstate.edu/speaker/

Tuesday 28 January 2014Seminar begins at 7pm in University Hall

"Next Generation Cancer Genomics"

Elaine R. Mardis, Ph.D.Professor of Genetics and Molecular MicrobiologyCo-director, The Genome Institute at Washington
University School of Medicine

Dr. Elaine Mardis graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Oklahoma with a B.S. degree in zoology.
She then completed her Ph.D. in Chemistry and Biochemistry in 1989, also at Oklahoma. Following graduation, Dr. Mardis was a senior research
scientist for four years at BioRad Laboratories in Hercules, CA.

In 1993, Dr. Mardis joined The Genome Institute at Washington University School of Medicine. As Director of Technology Development, she helped create methods and automation pipelines for sequencing the Human Genome. She
currently orchestrates the Center’s efforts to explore massively parallel sequencing technologies and to transition them into production sequencing
capabilities as well as new applications.

Dr. Mardis has research interests in the application of DNA sequencing to characterize cancer genomes and
transcriptomes, and using these data to support therapeutic decision-making. She also is interested in facilitating the translation of basic science
discoveries about human disease into the clinical setting.

Dr. Mardis serves as an editorial board member of Molecular Cancer Research, Genome Research and Molecular Oncology, and acts as a reviewer for Nature,
the New England Journal of Medicine, Cell and Genome Research. She serves on the scientific advisory boards of Pacific Biosciences, Inc., DNA Nexus, and
Edge Biosciences, Inc. Dr. Mardis received the Scripps Translational Research award for her work on cancer genomics in 2010, and was named a Distinguished
Alumni of the University of Oklahoma College of Arts and Sciences for 2011.nShe is the former chair of Basic and Translational Sciences for the American
College of Surgeons Oncology Group (ACOSOG).